Perbualan di kala sedang minum teh misai kucing

It is customary at the spa where I am the designated Gadis Kaunter every Sunday to serve Java tea to the customers before and after they go for their beauty treatments. So yesterday was no exception.

I served the three ladies who came in the afternoon. A mother and her two daughters. Two of them came for traditional massage.

They sat across from each other so while the daughter was sipping her tea, her elderly mum saw the brand name at the bottom of the cup. She immediately called me.

-Eh. Aku ingatkan Byford tu jenama spenda. Ada jugak cap ni untuk cawan ye Nak.
-*terkedu* Haaa ye la makcik. Cap je sama tu. Syarikat lain.
-Gamaknya le ye.

Tapi memang iya pun. Saya dapat set cawan tu percuma semasa membeli berkotak-kotak spenda untuk bapa dan adik saya sempena promosi jualan Aidilfitri dua tahun lepas. Kalau anak murid saya tahu cerita ni, mesti mereka akan berkata, "Madame ni...kot ya pun agak-agak laa."

New additions to the household

Since their arrival to the house last week, these two kittens have been a cause of much worry and concern to my other two adult cats that have dominated every inch of the house for the past 7 years. Dengan kehadiran mereka, nampaknya sharing of power and territory perlu difikirkan semula.

One is Abu the other is Hitam. I don't think I need to point out which one is which. Lack of originality in choice of name is evident enough. There has been an attempt to call them Mr Pumpkin and Mr Donut but I'm not so sure if these names will stick. Panjang sangat.

This is my 7 year old male orange baby. Momoi namanya. He's the one most affected by the arrival of the two kitties. Sampai sekarang dia tak sudah-sudah berjalan ke hulu ke hilir keliling rumah. Dan asyik mengiau setiap kali dia melihat tuannya (aku lah tu), seolah-olah ingin memberitahu sesuatu. Kesian dia. My bucuk-bucuk ni.

This is the diva of the house. Also a 7 year old tabby. She has adopted the "I-don't-care-about-the-two-brats-I-want-them-to-stay-out-of-my-face-just-talk-to-the-paw" approach. So she pretends like they don't exist. Don't worry Tina you'll still get to share the bed with me.

Nasib baik Agus the water turtle dan 2 ekor ikan puyu kat dapur tu pandai buat hal sendiri. Kalau tak mungkin saya memerlukan khidmat seorang pet shrink.

Kadang-kadang tak main gitar pun kena guna wah-wah pedal

Last night I met PYT and TGIUTD again. But this time at another petrol station. And this time I was lucky to have found a petrol pump quite a distance away from theirs. Oh sungguh tidak sanggup jika kejadian ngeri dahulu berulang kembali.

Mula-mula saya rasa lega. Kerana a) mereka tidak sedar akan kehdiran saya dan b) kalau boleh saya tidak mahu terjadi apa-apa yang tidak diingini. Tetapi malang tidak berbau. Dan di zaman moden ini sesungguhnya pisang memang boleh berbuah dua kali (kalau pisang FarmVille). Semasa saya hendak membayar di kaunter, PYT masuk juga ke dalam kedai serbaguna di stesyen minyak tersebut untuk membeli sesuatu.

I know it's a free democratic world and that everybody can come and go as they please but her very presence increased my blood pressure a few notches. Especially when she had to queue up right behind me at the cashier and I had to hear her annoying voice talking on the phone with TGIUTD. Seriously I think he has been voodooed. To be with a girl who's a walking springboard with no brains. And seriously when you hear her over-nasalized voice, you'd think that she 's swallowed a wah-wah pedal. Punya la sengau berdengung telinga semua orang dalam Esso mart tu. Atau adakah telinga aku aja yang terlebih sensitif?

-Aya-wah-wah-ang...(wah-wah pedal taking effect as she spoke)...you nak beli apa-apa lagi taa-wah-wah--aakk?
(sambil menjeling kat aku)
*someone replying on the handphone*
-Alaaa-wah-wah-aaa....naik motooo-w-wo--or keww...Lajjeww sangat la...I takwo-wo-ott...

Seriously (dah tiga kali aku cakap seriously ni) if she wants to have a higher IQ, she'd have to stand on a chair. URGH. Now I need to look for a janakuasa Van de Graaf somewhere to nyahcaskan all this negative energy.